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do they want to just take her business away from us? and abandon us? or did they realize that they will fail if we fail? souvenir publishing industry does have a good question to answer as they go through this merger process is do you want your independent booksellers, your brick-and-mortar booksellers because i wouldn't even include urns and nobles in there, do you want them to survive? or do you just want to get weaker? we've always been at the forefront of anything that could help us in the technology world. we got the database together back in the early 80s and were one of the first to go onto a computer system. so we wrapped her mind around that project, they were able to make the story more profitable. but over the years, most recently is in order to diversify we started our own digital book on demand called the trade bookmakers, where we make books. we've literally, physically make books. we take the manuscript, format it into a book, print the pages commented domingo, minette, sloppy cover on it and we made beautiful books for our local authors
do they want to just take her business away from us? and abandon us? or did they realize that they will fail if we fail? souvenir publishing industry does have a good question to answer as they go through this merger process is do you want your independent booksellers, your brick-and-mortar booksellers because i wouldn't even include urns and nobles in there, do you want them to survive? or do you just want to get weaker? we've always been at the forefront of anything that could help us in the...
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he writes about this and i used him. basically the idea is that hamilton and washington and everyone was saying during the war, these british are making us pay. they created this idea public debt and that funds their army and its horrible. they are making us pay as columnist. we have to pay the higher prices on stuff to fund their debt. they go to war and its horrible. they come to the army and they say why don't we start the public debt. we will start that whole sinking fund thing which they do and after the war hamilton is trying to create the modern economy that people extol him for now and it's a great giant financial thing but to pay for you know the bonds, the profit on the bond, they are basically using these farmers to boil it all down the tax. >> it sounds to me like trouble. >> exactly, exactly so washington gets off his horse and he turns around. he gets off then he turns back to washington after he makes it halfway there. he turns around and carlisle and hamilton takes it on. hamilton who is the great rival w
he writes about this and i used him. basically the idea is that hamilton and washington and everyone was saying during the war, these british are making us pay. they created this idea public debt and that funds their army and its horrible. they are making us pay as columnist. we have to pay the higher prices on stuff to fund their debt. they go to war and its horrible. they come to the army and they say why don't we start the public debt. we will start that whole sinking fund thing which they...
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he grossed about it at times but also made remarks that allowed as how the militia was a useful thing to have. he couldn't have bit the continental army without the existence of the militias and people who had been in the militias, and more importantly, volunteers and others who knew how to use firearms, and that was key. >> host: people were using these on the frontier, protection against the indians, native americans, hunting, and then in the colonies, some sense of responsibility nor the common good. >> guest: the command law right to have and use firearms came with a civic duty to use them when called upon. >> host: who was in charge of the militias? >> guest: local commanders, towns. they had them in new england, certainly. later on, they became more broadly based, but as tensions and hostilities mounted between the british authorities authorie colonists, in the approach to revolutionary war, it was seen by many of the leaders at the time as an advantage that we americans -- we knew how to use firearms. >> host: at this time was there organized law enforcement? these communities?
he grossed about it at times but also made remarks that allowed as how the militia was a useful thing to have. he couldn't have bit the continental army without the existence of the militias and people who had been in the militias, and more importantly, volunteers and others who knew how to use firearms, and that was key. >> host: people were using these on the frontier, protection against the indians, native americans, hunting, and then in the colonies, some sense of responsibility nor...
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some of us would say oh well. it is a crucial moment in his career and an important crucial moment in america's history. the big themes that you see in the speech and the broader story working through the election are kind of i think of four that i will be focusing on. i will be brief on each of them to give enough time for questions. first off, the obvious background of the cold war and a new style of conservative vision of foreign policy that i will explain. directly related to that, there is an enormous divide within the republican party in 1952. that shouldn't surprise any of us obviously. this is always a very divided party the tensions within the republican party that the speech and election point to are important. the third thing that i think is perhaps most important is the american tradition of populism for and what richard nixon is doing to the populist tradition in this speech and for what the election and the fourth and final thing is the style of politics nixon developed. the subtitle of the book is a
some of us would say oh well. it is a crucial moment in his career and an important crucial moment in america's history. the big themes that you see in the speech and the broader story working through the election are kind of i think of four that i will be focusing on. i will be brief on each of them to give enough time for questions. first off, the obvious background of the cold war and a new style of conservative vision of foreign policy that i will explain. directly related to that, there is...
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if all of us, every single day instruct others around them, all of us carry this toxin that is kindness in us, and we shouldn't keep it for ourselves. one last example that happenedded to me. somebody -- it was a snowy day in new york. i was coming here. i was a 20-something starting in newark, sloshing around on the slushy day, and i remember coming to a pool of slush that was deep, probably like shin deep, and i was looking at it. i see an older african-american woman pushing a cart, you know what i'm talking about? the metals, mesh-type cart. i'll help this woman, of course, through the slush ocean, and then this guy jumped up, a white conservatively dressed guy who i would have had, at that time, never assumed would have gone and walk in the slush in the shoes that are like my monthly allowance, slush in the shoes, brings the woman over to the side, smiles at the woman, woman smiles at him, and i witnessed that. my day changed. that made me open and more accepting and loving. you never know what an act can do to make that change. that's what the world needs desperately because we ar
if all of us, every single day instruct others around them, all of us carry this toxin that is kindness in us, and we shouldn't keep it for ourselves. one last example that happenedded to me. somebody -- it was a snowy day in new york. i was coming here. i was a 20-something starting in newark, sloshing around on the slushy day, and i remember coming to a pool of slush that was deep, probably like shin deep, and i was looking at it. i see an older african-american woman pushing a cart, you know...
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so the past six separate bills using different combinations. so the lesson is persuasion is necessary and imperative to sway the downfall but if you don't do the numbers coming you won't succeed. these men together cindy obsequy to this gimmick we are speaking with fergus bordewich authors of "america's great debate" stephen a. douglas and the compromise of the union. thank you. >>> i think the writers institute is very important with a culture. we are a culture of words and voices. words are key to our imagination and capacity to envision things. we ourselves are not completely tied to print on the page. but i think that there is no other art form so readily
so the past six separate bills using different combinations. so the lesson is persuasion is necessary and imperative to sway the downfall but if you don't do the numbers coming you won't succeed. these men together cindy obsequy to this gimmick we are speaking with fergus bordewich authors of "america's great debate" stephen a. douglas and the compromise of the union. thank you. >>> i think the writers institute is very important with a culture. we are a culture of words and...
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>>guest: many companies use a big machine date do not use fresh a's, or sour cream. wheat makes each batch and we look at all the ingredients and there is a person looking at everything every step away. we do not put it in a compare of and that is a big difference could take some iraq but they put it through mon-khmer ball and six hours later they have 10,000 cakes. this is a grillingreally good quality ingredients and my mother would yell at me for i using release delayed chees fill eight cream cheese. real billy green tea's. philly green tea's. we have the gramm cracker againstcream cheese. and we do it of the gramm crackers and this is what our family does we do cakes every love it. this is package for christmas and it is a star phone error that is very special week do not do ground deliveries. >>host: vertigo to california real joanna believe it is 3:00 a.m. and up morning she has to be excited when a welcome joanne welcome to hsn and thank you for getting up early with us. good morning. >>caller: hi intelliwhite purchases cake lester microcurrent melded to me by
>>guest: many companies use a big machine date do not use fresh a's, or sour cream. wheat makes each batch and we look at all the ingredients and there is a person looking at everything every step away. we do not put it in a compare of and that is a big difference could take some iraq but they put it through mon-khmer ball and six hours later they have 10,000 cakes. this is a grillingreally good quality ingredients and my mother would yell at me for i using release delayed chees fill...
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this shouldn't be a surprise to us. it's not as if, if i could use the metaphor, that congress was going along in a bus and -- on a ride through the country and suddenly came to the end of the road and there was a cliff. this shouldn't be a surprise to us. we -- we -- we created this cliff ourselves a year and a half ago when we adopted the budget control act. and we created it for a very good reason: because we knew that we had proven ourselves incapable of making the compromises that were necessary to achieve the long-term bipartisan debt-reduction program that america desperately needs. we're over $16.4 trillion in debt. i'm in my last days as a u.s. senator. if you'd told me when i started that we'd be $16 trillion in debt, i wouldn't have believed it. frankly, if you told me just a dozen years ago at the end of the clinton administration when we were in surplus that we could possibly be $16 trillion in de debt, i would have thought -- well, i would have thought you were not reality-tested. but here we are, and most
this shouldn't be a surprise to us. it's not as if, if i could use the metaphor, that congress was going along in a bus and -- on a ride through the country and suddenly came to the end of the road and there was a cliff. this shouldn't be a surprise to us. we -- we -- we created this cliff ourselves a year and a half ago when we adopted the budget control act. and we created it for a very good reason: because we knew that we had proven ourselves incapable of making the compromises that were...
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is that some uses, those uses that qualify as transformative uses should be available without fee which is the same proposition that about the operation. >> we can agree some uses are fair use. >> i will -- my -- never argue points of law with a lawyer especially on copyright on the other side of the case. let me say this in layman's terms and speaking as a layman and as a professor and a scholar or a writer who relies on fair use. i believe in fair use. i could not do what i'd do without fair use but within fair use there is a doctrine called france formative use which you just mentioned and that is a camel that opens into the tent, destroys my mind what fair use is intended to mean and that is what i would call a radical notion of transformative use that you can copy and entire book, not little bits and pieces, you are talking about the whole thing. i think higher courts will resolve that the supreme court has a much more conservative and fair view of fair use that doesn't allow people guiding of fair use. >> i have a fair bit to say here. i would say first of all, when you look at we
is that some uses, those uses that qualify as transformative uses should be available without fee which is the same proposition that about the operation. >> we can agree some uses are fair use. >> i will -- my -- never argue points of law with a lawyer especially on copyright on the other side of the case. let me say this in layman's terms and speaking as a layman and as a professor and a scholar or a writer who relies on fair use. i believe in fair use. i could not do what i'd do...
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so they made us go to the southeast corner. so for six months i worked on the third floor in the second quarter would have been tom's old bedroom on the ground floor with the original tom sawyer's, which burned in 1806. so i always thought this was linked here. i wrote a book about the woman in the shower was not janet leigh. as an actress and a model. they wanted everyone to think that was janet leigh. i thought my god in one year this forgotten women. i refers to know she was dead. in one year use cover play role, and francis corporals first movie, the canseco. she was one of the first 10 bunnies in chicago. she wrote stallions for steve mcqueen. so i'm writing this book. i was than his personal involvement. it is a great door in a great woman. gradually i find clues that may be somebody else was killed in her place. somebody saying i was the woman. i went to her she has to go to high school. there was no date, but a remark. maybe find out how she was alive. i've been asking ever about it. send sitting there saying she has to
so they made us go to the southeast corner. so for six months i worked on the third floor in the second quarter would have been tom's old bedroom on the ground floor with the original tom sawyer's, which burned in 1806. so i always thought this was linked here. i wrote a book about the woman in the shower was not janet leigh. as an actress and a model. they wanted everyone to think that was janet leigh. i thought my god in one year this forgotten women. i refers to know she was dead. in one...
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send us an e-mail. at booktv.org or twitter on slash booktv. >> if we turn away from the needs of others we align ourselves with those forces which are bringing about this suffering. >> the white house is a bully pulpit and you ought to take advantage of it. >> obesity in this country is nothing short of a public health crisis. >> had little antennas that went up and told me when somebody had their own agenda. >> so much influence in the office. it would be a shame to waste it. >> i think they serve as a window on the past to what was going on with american women. >> she becomes the chief confidante. she is really in a way the only one in the world he can trust. >> many of the women that were first ladies they were writers, journalists. they wrote books. >> they are in many cases quite frankly more interesting as human beings than their husband, if only because they are not first and foremost defined and consequently limited by political ambition. >> dolly was a both socially adept and politically savvy
send us an e-mail. at booktv.org or twitter on slash booktv. >> if we turn away from the needs of others we align ourselves with those forces which are bringing about this suffering. >> the white house is a bully pulpit and you ought to take advantage of it. >> obesity in this country is nothing short of a public health crisis. >> had little antennas that went up and told me when somebody had their own agenda. >> so much influence in the office. it would be a shame...
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weapons the american said it could not use because people could not read the manual. it's just -- it's just coming more and more -- the gap is becoming more and more. the most american thing that we have, the most american thing that we have in this country is the ability for those glasses to wrap themselves, to make themselves whole and to prosper without reading this is impossible. this is why. my own background is, i was raised in a foster family. my mom read. i guess on a third grade level. four days a week, a romance magazine. [laughter] and i didn't -- i didn't understand it was a true american magazine. and did not learn until my 30's. but i wasn't attracted to the stories so much that i was attracted to being with mom, with my foster mom. and that would watch her finger roll across the page and eventually because the reading level of romance was fairly low, i could pick up words. and by the time i reached the age of 5i could read to her as she ironed and then she worked. and that was -- i never knew she was giving me something. i never knew she was transmittin
weapons the american said it could not use because people could not read the manual. it's just -- it's just coming more and more -- the gap is becoming more and more. the most american thing that we have, the most american thing that we have in this country is the ability for those glasses to wrap themselves, to make themselves whole and to prosper without reading this is impossible. this is why. my own background is, i was raised in a foster family. my mom read. i guess on a third grade level....
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please join us there. thank you. [applause] >> my name is susan novotny and i'm the owner of the book house of stuyvestant plaza in beautiful downtown detroit. where now at the stuyvesant bookstore and we been here since 1975. we sell books. real books, books that you can hold in your hand, crack open, cuddle up in a chair with, those kinds of books. i started out in the publishing industry. i was a sales rep for simon & schuster and now banned putnam. that was back in the 70's and 80s and i sell books all over upstate new york and throughout new england. after about 10 years of that lifestyle i decided i wanted to go to the other side of the counter and sell books. so i went to work or the bookstore here in the plaza and i eventually bought into the business and then bought the business out. and so i have been co-owner since 1991. it's been an up-and-down history since then. shortly after he purchased the store, with a small business administration loan, it was lynn barnes & noble and borders moved in and literally
please join us there. thank you. [applause] >> my name is susan novotny and i'm the owner of the book house of stuyvestant plaza in beautiful downtown detroit. where now at the stuyvesant bookstore and we been here since 1975. we sell books. real books, books that you can hold in your hand, crack open, cuddle up in a chair with, those kinds of books. i started out in the publishing industry. i was a sales rep for simon & schuster and now banned putnam. that was back in the 70's and...
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>>host: 7 will join us who is calling us right now and she is a giants fan and welcome to the football fan shop here at hsn and you are a giants fan are you in new york or a displaced and. >>caller: i and in new york. >>host: you still come to hsn for the best cook but there are ground? >>caller: i have three of these instuff i also ordered another one for my brother. >>host: a year later, how was it will they not? >>caller: the watches good, it feels good. >>host: baby and for an exciting playoff season. >>guest: 11 in maine has been a little off but usually catches fire towards the end. >>caller: money is on the vine, a light comes through for us. and >>host: thank you so much for joining us. have a wonderful weekend think you for sharing your story. she got her through last season and she talks about how great the looks and how wonderful it washes and she is calling back to let you know that this is a special choice for you cracked your favorite team why you can't think of it as a great gift for the football and in your life and we will move on and process all of their why you are s
>>host: 7 will join us who is calling us right now and she is a giants fan and welcome to the football fan shop here at hsn and you are a giants fan are you in new york or a displaced and. >>caller: i and in new york. >>host: you still come to hsn for the best cook but there are ground? >>caller: i have three of these instuff i also ordered another one for my brother. >>host: a year later, how was it will they not? >>caller: the watches good, it feels good....
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and who will start us off? yes, stand up and we will get you a microphone. >> go ahead. >> i would object because there is a basic value in learning and a basic excitement about learning new things if you start paying for that you remove that basic excitement because let's say someone reads a book and they like it, then they like it and they will read another book but if you pay a kid to read a look and give them money they are not going to like it as well. >> so the pain made all their motivation to read. and tell us your name. thank you for that. did you want to add to that? stand up and tell us. >> i disagree with her. i think that you are putting the wrong emphasis on the goal. it isn't necessarily to make money, but to gain knowledge and enjoyment. >> that is the proper goal of teaching and the amount -- tell us your name. >> now we need to hear from someone who thinks that it is worth a try. you have heard the objections. what would you say in defense of this idea? stand up and we will get to the micropho
and who will start us off? yes, stand up and we will get you a microphone. >> go ahead. >> i would object because there is a basic value in learning and a basic excitement about learning new things if you start paying for that you remove that basic excitement because let's say someone reads a book and they like it, then they like it and they will read another book but if you pay a kid to read a look and give them money they are not going to like it as well. >> so the pain made...
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>> host: start by giving us the demographics of the south in 1860. >> guest: that's a crucial question because they went to work on the trade to make donation. they were smaller than the union to start with, roughly 10 million people compared to the indians 22. is already tough road. but a military fact isn't as much paid attention to this it should be as 4 million of those 10 million people were black and enslave. when it came time to mobilize for war, they didn't have access to 10 million people. they have access to avoid population of 16 million, half of women, many underage peers to the demographics are tough to start with. >> host: how many white males at that point in the confederate south? obviously that was the base. >> guest: i try to figure out how many member voting age. the link between voting a soldier and was typed in an 18th century. i figure there's one point at you voting age white men. military age starts out smaller than not. 18 to 35. by the end of the war, 1555. >> host: what advantages going into the civil war, besides caught. we hear about cotton. we've heard abo
>> host: start by giving us the demographics of the south in 1860. >> guest: that's a crucial question because they went to work on the trade to make donation. they were smaller than the union to start with, roughly 10 million people compared to the indians 22. is already tough road. but a military fact isn't as much paid attention to this it should be as 4 million of those 10 million people were black and enslave. when it came time to mobilize for war, they didn't have access to 10...
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you can tweet us@booktv. comment on the big facebook wall or send us ab e-mail. >>> joining us now on booktv is author and professor wayne karlin who's most recent book is "wandering souls: journeys with the dead and the living in vietnam." professor, swhofs homer? >> he was a friend of mine who presently retired living in north carolina. he was a office platoon leader and company commander in the sam war. and he had contacted me a number of years ago because i had some contacts in vietnam vietnamese i had been working with. he had taken documents and a book from the body of an north vietnamese soldier he killed during the war, and wanted to see if he could find a family and return the documents to them. >> why? >> he had gone through decades much ptsd. he had a rough war. he had seen many of the own men killed, went through a lot of the patterns that people tend to go through with post-traumatic stress. adrenaline junkie, wrecked cars, he drank alcohol, had a headquartered time forming roits. -- relationship
you can tweet us@booktv. comment on the big facebook wall or send us ab e-mail. >>> joining us now on booktv is author and professor wayne karlin who's most recent book is "wandering souls: journeys with the dead and the living in vietnam." professor, swhofs homer? >> he was a friend of mine who presently retired living in north carolina. he was a office platoon leader and company commander in the sam war. and he had contacted me a number of years ago because i had some...
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. >> is it coincidental uses direct consignment was that on purpose? >> he has a personal passion for the school because of his family connections. >> i can come in the american university, or who runs the? >> faculty air missile easterners. the vast majority of students. >> is it associated with religion, another school? >> is deliberately secular nonsectarian. >> what does it cost to go their four-year? >> i have no idea. >> what would it cost and reverend bliss this day. >> i don't thought that either come over 10 and open a store not offspring and delete, but to people of all ethnicities, classes and that's its appeal, it's mary. >> how is it viewed in the middle east and how is it the reverend bliss opened it? >> all-star with the chronologically earlier one first. there's a lot of suspicion when the school opened in the 1860s. this is run by christian missionaries, americans who didn't have very deep roots in the region, but rather quickly it became apparent to middle easterners who are not just orthodox christians, but this is the best place to
. >> is it coincidental uses direct consignment was that on purpose? >> he has a personal passion for the school because of his family connections. >> i can come in the american university, or who runs the? >> faculty air missile easterners. the vast majority of students. >> is it associated with religion, another school? >> is deliberately secular nonsectarian. >> what does it cost to go their four-year? >> i have no idea. >> what would it...
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used to be. but to my knowledge anybody under the age of like 50 using the word souci is making an anachronistic joke. they are making fun of themselves. but they are nonetheless banned from having this on a t-shirt at yale, the university of promises to the students you shouldn't be allowed to mention the unmentionable and say the unsalable it's really free speech language but the f. scott fitzgerald quote was a bridge too far. people took notice of that in "the new york times" piece. i was also fond of the fact i had a peace at the same time a lot of people have a piece on "the new york times" on the same day making the point of all of the different presidential debates took place at universities including hofstra that have ridiculous speech codes and i have some fun pointing out that if he were to apply these to the presidential candidates by the plan language of these codes and i actually made the argument that i really wish they would enforce them against the candidates because the reason th
used to be. but to my knowledge anybody under the age of like 50 using the word souci is making an anachronistic joke. they are making fun of themselves. but they are nonetheless banned from having this on a t-shirt at yale, the university of promises to the students you shouldn't be allowed to mention the unmentionable and say the unsalable it's really free speech language but the f. scott fitzgerald quote was a bridge too far. people took notice of that in "the new york times"...
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flashing red was a term that was used in conversation with us by an official of the state department, and it couldn't have been more correct. all the evidence was flashing red that we had put american personnel in benghazi in an increasingly dangerous situation with violent is slammist -- violent islamicist extremists having occurred there with attacks on our mission there, two others prior to that year, and yet we did not give them the security that they needed to protect them, and we did not make the decision that i believe we should have made since we didn't provide them with the security that we should have closed our mission there. and as a result, people really suffered. mr. president, we recognize that the congressionally mandated accountability review board at the department of state has issued a report on the events in benghazi, and i think it was an excellent report. there are other committees of congress continuing with their own investigations, and each of these will and should make a valuable contribution to our understanding of what happened at benghazi so that we can ta
flashing red was a term that was used in conversation with us by an official of the state department, and it couldn't have been more correct. all the evidence was flashing red that we had put american personnel in benghazi in an increasingly dangerous situation with violent is slammist -- violent islamicist extremists having occurred there with attacks on our mission there, two others prior to that year, and yet we did not give them the security that they needed to protect them, and we did not...
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i want to be useful. on my tombstone, i wanted to say he was useful. he lived a long time. but i want to be useful. i don't want just to say the word. i want to make a difference. >> well you already are and i thank you on behalf of not only the library of congress and the children's book counsel and every child of reader but on behalf of the audience and for our country. it's a wonderful job you are doing. let's give walter dean myers a round of applause. [applause] we continue our coverage of the international summit of the book with a panel titled "the role of cultural institutions in fostering the future of the book." this is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> now we are coming to the second session of our day. it will be a panel discussion on the role of cultural institutions in the role of fostering the book. i will turn to our moderator to introduce the panelists once we are all on stage. a distinguished figure in publishing and journalism and i'm sure you've heard of them. president publisher random house trade group, the founding editor of mass traveler magazine, edit
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we live in an age in which distance is dead, in which every sickle one of us -- single one of us could just telecommute in to whatever business employs us, occupying whatever spot appeals to our biofill ya, and yet in so many ways we choose urban life. we choose the inconveniences, the high cost of living in urban areas. despite the fact that the tech no profits and the cyber sears 20 years ago predicted all this new technology would make cities obsolete. and yet google, which of all the companies in the world should have access to the best long distance working technology, what do they do? they build the google plex so their workers can be right next to one another. silicon valley, right? practically the most famous geographic cluster in the world is also the industry which is the most technologically savvy. why is it that all this new technology far from making face to face contact in the cities that make it obsolete seems to be hypercharging our cities? this relatively rosy view is very unlike the new york of my youth. i was born in manhattan in 1967. i say that warily in the boston
we live in an age in which distance is dead, in which every sickle one of us -- single one of us could just telecommute in to whatever business employs us, occupying whatever spot appeals to our biofill ya, and yet in so many ways we choose urban life. we choose the inconveniences, the high cost of living in urban areas. despite the fact that the tech no profits and the cyber sears 20 years ago predicted all this new technology would make cities obsolete. and yet google, which of all the...
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at one point* he crossed the red line when he used her money as collateral. when she had to pay for his mistake she sent him packing. hetty was a single working mother with two children. at the time there was constant articles how inferior women were with money, and at, and impossible to invest. also how hetty was mean, miserly, a terrible mother. with truth and new yclept days new england style she watched her pennies to the extreme. she would read a boarding house and would dress in old clothes, she taught her son and daughter as much as she could about business. girls should know about business and finance at the very least to be a better wife but also to have a career even if they did not need one. she believed that women were the equal of any man. the next 25 years in 1893 there was a bust. after a long recession a great boom the 1907, of great bust. every time it happened it was caused by greed and ego and over lending and overspending. as warren buffett said recently, a climate of fear is the investor's best friend. hetty was brave, courageous brave, c
at one point* he crossed the red line when he used her money as collateral. when she had to pay for his mistake she sent him packing. hetty was a single working mother with two children. at the time there was constant articles how inferior women were with money, and at, and impossible to invest. also how hetty was mean, miserly, a terrible mother. with truth and new yclept days new england style she watched her pennies to the extreme. she would read a boarding house and would dress in old...
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from books that used to be recorded pretty much on tape, the old cassette tape idea to using the latest in digital technology, and we're very excited about this transition because that makes it faster, cheaper, more efficient to get good quality reading materials to people when they need it. the service, obviously, is designed for the government to be sure that people have equal collections and access to the materials and in the spirit of all the public libraries in the country, and we have over 15,000 libraries. we have more public libraries than mcdonald's, we have a chance with the service like this to be sure that everyone has a chance to be well-informed citizens, which, obviously, is most critical, but, also to enjoy the rewards of being able to read great novels and great literature and be part of the world around them. we call ourselves the talking book and braille library. we could probably be the talking book library in part because braille ask not as popular as it used to be. braille is expensive to produce. uses a lot of paper. it is a paper-based technology. familiar quotat
from books that used to be recorded pretty much on tape, the old cassette tape idea to using the latest in digital technology, and we're very excited about this transition because that makes it faster, cheaper, more efficient to get good quality reading materials to people when they need it. the service, obviously, is designed for the government to be sure that people have equal collections and access to the materials and in the spirit of all the public libraries in the country, and we have...
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there are wrongdoers the government can protect us from them. overly meddlesome government goes to fire and you end up suppressing enterprise and innovation and job creation. >> 2008 financial situation and the so-called bailout. are you supportive of that government intervention? >> release the question and answer of the book basically. you can see that as an emergency intervention. this government had done it back now, that would've been fine. unfortunately they stayed too long. the comparison they make is to katrina. there's emergency aid and basically people get up and back on their feet. but unfortunately the government conceded the financial crisis as an excuse to expand itself and expand control of the economy. >> at what point would you say that government should have out as the emergency aid and click >> they did allow banks that wanted to pay the money. obviously they're making it difficult. they make and keep it it up for saddam those who didn't want bailouts in the first place. so basically, some people really have argued that the fa
there are wrongdoers the government can protect us from them. overly meddlesome government goes to fire and you end up suppressing enterprise and innovation and job creation. >> 2008 financial situation and the so-called bailout. are you supportive of that government intervention? >> release the question and answer of the book basically. you can see that as an emergency intervention. this government had done it back now, that would've been fine. unfortunately they stayed too long....
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let us check on that. if you do have your hsn card or mastercard you want to get on board with this one. it is awesome. if you are ready to experience windows 8, if you want a computer this is the most affordable. in this size and with the flexpay that gives you the chance get this home and secure it for under $100. take action. there is no substitute for a laptop. acer has been and continues to be one of the biggest brand names in the country when it comes to a computer. we have had a wonderful partnership and i know we have sold over 1 million acer laptops hsn. that is why i invite you call on the testimonial talkline. when you think about $300 of software we are including, all your music. your photographs. that whole, new beautiful easy experience with windows eight we are now you are downloading applications. many of you are familiar with that because you may be using applications on your cell phones or smartphone. here is a graph of all you can do. call us as you place your orders but just now (...)th
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tweet us your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. >>> and now joining us on booktv is an old washington hand and that is ambassador stewart. he's an author, the future of jews is the name of the book. ambassador, why are you writing a book about the future of the jews? >> we have survived 3,000 years of calamityies and we survived and leave thrived and contributed to societies even those that didn't want us. now we have a whole new set of 21st century challenges, and the question is having survived those terrible times, can we now survive prosperity, success, and integration? and i look at this from two perspective, the global forces that affect america, american jews, and israel, everything from the shift of power to united states and the west to china and the east hours of globalization in the digital era. how to deal with the 1.6 muslims in the world, the threat of iranian nuclear power, and i also look at internal threats, low birthrates, assimilation, and again, whether we can, in effect, succeed at the time when we are more successful than ever in being integrated to our society. it's
tweet us your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. >>> and now joining us on booktv is an old washington hand and that is ambassador stewart. he's an author, the future of jews is the name of the book. ambassador, why are you writing a book about the future of the jews? >> we have survived 3,000 years of calamityies and we survived and leave thrived and contributed to societies even those that didn't want us. now we have a whole new set of 21st century challenges, and the question is...
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common on a facebook wall or send us an e-mail. book tv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> your watching book tv on c-span2. here's our prime-time lineup for tonight. starting at 7:00 p.m. eastern, hysteria and the creation of the universe. then at 815, the experiences as a christian living in israel. 930 from the national book festival, an interview on her book elizabeth the queen. at 10:00 p.m. eastern, which includes that's primetime programming with our weekly afterwards programming. this week oliver stone and peter kufic discussed their book the untold history of the united states with michael kazin. >> tonight i am going to us discuss abraham lincoln's role in the crisis of the union, 1860-61. more specifically will talk about however him again rejected any meaningful compromise. the country was gripped by a section of crisis because many southerners feared lincoln and his republican party. it was a north party and proudly so. it did not have a significant seven connection. lincoln was elected without a single les
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but what they used to do to win. and so they start with these things that used to be victories . really important as we move forward. you don't let -- that we figure out a way to say, yes, we're winning unless. and the. [indiscernible] it is a victory living in the right direction so that we -- we have a lot of frustration. we need to figure out. >> cleaning this up a bit, political reform. there is a pattern, i don't want to exaggerate too much, but a little bit. the pattern is that after some political debacle or policy like in the 2000 election people come together and get something done, but it is not the priority of the progressives. a fairly short order, the political reform agenda, the process agenda, you know, drops into the background. people go about issues like justice for jobs. so i think that this sense of the long term is absolutely right. it took decades. toward the end of the book i list one after the other, the big challenges that the country has to deal with. and in health, education, on and on and on. about 25 things. it's shocking really. .. start with john ad
but what they used to do to win. and so they start with these things that used to be victories . really important as we move forward. you don't let -- that we figure out a way to say, yes, we're winning unless. and the. [indiscernible] it is a victory living in the right direction so that we -- we have a lot of frustration. we need to figure out. >> cleaning this up a bit, political reform. there is a pattern, i don't want to exaggerate too much, but a little bit. the pattern is that...
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this moment of crisis will test us. instincts, loyalties, faith in ourselves, creativity, he motions and certainly our courage. may 16, 1874 a reservoir dam gave way in western massachusetts to a nation in and tidal wave that was between 20 and 40 feet high and 300 feet wide and came down a 14-mile valley swept through williamsburg williamsburg, skinnerville, florence and new hampton. to give a sense of the power to appreciate the time it took to pass through portions of the valley. in the lower portion the land was turned into a plane and it took an hour and a half to fled northampton to flood into the connecticut river. in the of the region's the 600 million gallons of water went through a williamsburg williamsburg, skinnerville and hated bill 15 minutes each. the worst industrial disaster at the time. over $1 million of property damage was sustained almost a hundred people left homeless and 139 were killed my input book is about the only village not be built skinnerville and william skinner. what set his story apart
this moment of crisis will test us. instincts, loyalties, faith in ourselves, creativity, he motions and certainly our courage. may 16, 1874 a reservoir dam gave way in western massachusetts to a nation in and tidal wave that was between 20 and 40 feet high and 300 feet wide and came down a 14-mile valley swept through williamsburg williamsburg, skinnerville, florence and new hampton. to give a sense of the power to appreciate the time it took to pass through portions of the valley. in the...
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i almost used that for my title. he ended up he and his entire family were brutally gruesomely murdered. they were be headed, his children were killed as well, and it was a big sensational story at the time. you can go through the free press archives and find all this coverage and it was never solved. at a certain point i realized it was not far from where i was living so i walked over to check it out and where his house was, so i filed that way and we're the enough, probably a year later there was another murder almost literally across the street. it was a drug thing and these kids were trying to -- their ridge two rival drug houses, they were trying -- these two teenagers were trying to scare off radicals and to do this they ended up killing and then dismembering this guy and scattering body parts around literally across the street from this other murder. again, that was history repeating itself in a way that i found fascinating. i went to the trial and i don't normally cover murder trials. sort of -- i don't know
i almost used that for my title. he ended up he and his entire family were brutally gruesomely murdered. they were be headed, his children were killed as well, and it was a big sensational story at the time. you can go through the free press archives and find all this coverage and it was never solved. at a certain point i realized it was not far from where i was living so i walked over to check it out and where his house was, so i filed that way and we're the enough, probably a year later there...
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in joy and shot pu joy and shop with us throughout the whole coun enjoy shop with us. you can always send the back to us if you are not impressed with the quality with no problems. you are not gonna be able find anywhere else in the entire nation all your nfl teams. >>guest: the buffalo bills getting back on track with a quarterback that them to the jim kelly days when they have the four straight super bowls. >>host: we talked about how the game change for every do this point of the season one is not happening question mark ever >>guest: buddy this time this season is banged up and hurt and these are important weeks for them to get themselves back and ready and prepared for the playoff run. was great when teams lot of things early because when they get back they haven't played at the high performance r. pique they haven't had the feel as hard as they did in the beginning this is a time in helping the sometimes is a way to set to back a little bit. get to madden going. >>host: if you are done your couple weeks to play and maybe you are out of red army corps to experimen
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, and i used to make deliveries. were people in the lofts? >> i don't think so. it's the business owners on the street didn't want me and my friends doing what we were doing back there, so -- [laughter] >> when i first, it's changed even in the four years since i represented that place. when i first arrived, it felt like kind of the best possible version of what, you know, i thought detroit could be. it was just such a vibrant mix of people, you know. laz, a personal chef. there was, like, djs, and john sinclaire was around a lot, rock history, and, you know, ron scott, who's, you know, a great local character, founded the local chapter of the black panthers back then. such a wild mix of people, and such a sort of tight community, and, so that, yeah, that's one neighborhood that i would, even though it's just a single block, that i would point to. >> the bonfires. >> yeah, there's a fire pit in the back and people would hang out around the bonfire, and literally, it's eastern market. >> right. >> the other neighborho
, and i used to make deliveries. were people in the lofts? >> i don't think so. it's the business owners on the street didn't want me and my friends doing what we were doing back there, so -- [laughter] >> when i first, it's changed even in the four years since i represented that place. when i first arrived, it felt like kind of the best possible version of what, you know, i thought detroit could be. it was just such a vibrant mix of people, you know. laz, a personal chef. there...
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sportsmen are not used to having the government step in and scooped up what they were used to hunting and fishing on. so part of the mission was to explain the rationale for these refugees. one of these booklet was devoted not to a specific refuge, but the subject of conservation generally. the conservation inaction number five was published in 1948. it's really a landmark of conservation literature and all of these booklet demonstrated one of the things that scare you sick about carson's work for the government, that it is often too good for the government. several occasions is a dicey taking she written into something else because her supervisors thought the government didn't deserve the literature she was producing. although in fact these were sent out to universities and extension services. you could buy one from the u.s. printing office, but if he went to wildlife refuge and stopped at the information kiosk, you could pick one up and read about the refugee you are visiting. but what you do get a sense of a person was doing. again, this is a pamphlet you get for free if you went t
sportsmen are not used to having the government step in and scooped up what they were used to hunting and fishing on. so part of the mission was to explain the rationale for these refugees. one of these booklet was devoted not to a specific refuge, but the subject of conservation generally. the conservation inaction number five was published in 1948. it's really a landmark of conservation literature and all of these booklet demonstrated one of the things that scare you sick about carson's work...
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we want you, america, to elect us your next president. [laughter] now it's not like we don't have our own faults. we are not perfect. our prim minister makes dick cheney look like a human rights crusader. we got a special thanks credit in the book of revelations which is why once we become president, we'll turn around and invade ourselves. a little regime change we call our own. now, you're probably asking yourself why would these guys be qualified? is canada qualified? not only is it cooler in canada, the con cements of freedom, but because we're america, jr., the little brother who is io dallize -- idolized you, grown up together, conquered a frontier together, laughed, cried, bled, overeaten at thanksgiving, and together, we created the weakest beers in the known universe. [laughter] now, what we really want is just to offer america a chance to kick back for awhile, you know, let us cook your meals, fluff your pillows, and give you team to heal and reevaluate your place in the universe. understand, america, we still love you. you're fa
we want you, america, to elect us your next president. [laughter] now it's not like we don't have our own faults. we are not perfect. our prim minister makes dick cheney look like a human rights crusader. we got a special thanks credit in the book of revelations which is why once we become president, we'll turn around and invade ourselves. a little regime change we call our own. now, you're probably asking yourself why would these guys be qualified? is canada qualified? not only is it cooler in...
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to protect us against individuals, groups, corporations that would do us harm. >> host: as governor, did you, did you shrink the size of the state government? do you -- you used your veto pen quite a bit, but were you able to shrink the size of the federal -- >> guest: when it came to dollars, i was able to cut the rate of growth in half x that was the historical rate of growth. i always pointed at state government employees. over an eight-year period, there were 1200 fewer state employees starting with 12,000, ending with 10,800. it was a 10% reduction in state government employees which i always pointed out unquestionably said that, hey, we were doing things more efficiently because we were doing things with fewer state employees, and we were doing more things. i'd like to point out that the real driver of state budgets state to state is medicaid. and that, of course, is a federal entitlement, and you really -- it's open-ended. and that's what has us in the predicament that we have are the entitlements, medicaid, medicare, social security to a lesser degree. but we have to address
to protect us against individuals, groups, corporations that would do us harm. >> host: as governor, did you, did you shrink the size of the state government? do you -- you used your veto pen quite a bit, but were you able to shrink the size of the federal -- >> guest: when it came to dollars, i was able to cut the rate of growth in half x that was the historical rate of growth. i always pointed at state government employees. over an eight-year period, there were 1200 fewer state...
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send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> now, from new york, the writer's institute promotes cultural initiatives through author presentations, workshops, film screenings and more. >> i can see each event just as vividly as i can see the posters before me. i'm donald faulkner, i'm director of the new york state writer's institute, and what we do, what i do is kind of herd intellectual cats. we bring a lot of writers through to albany to do readings, we also do a number of other types of programs, events, writing workshops and film series and programs with young writers and a summer institute that we run in saratoga. >> the life of the writer, my life in the last few years was, i suppose you'd call it adventurous. but this thing ruined everything. [laughter] >> we go far and wide, find the best writers that we can and bring them to albany. it's like bringing the world to a particular place. and i don't think -- i can't think of any other organization, even some of the better known ones in
send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> now, from new york, the writer's institute promotes cultural initiatives through author presentations, workshops, film screenings and more. >> i can see each event just as vividly as i can see the posters before me. i'm donald faulkner, i'm director of the new york state writer's institute, and what we do, what i do is kind of herd intellectual cats. we bring a lot of writers through to albany to do...
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that's like all of us here. to be reading on a treadmill or something, it doesn't mean that were sedentary. it doesn't mean that we are more sedentary than people playing video games. the reading is good for you. there are other medical evidence studies that suggest that reading is good for you. in the digital age, you have zero privacy, get over it. i'm here to say that that was said about every technology in the past 125 years. when the portable camera was developed. in 1888. all of a sudden you have no control over your image because you could go into a studio and pose and wear your best clothes. close. now, you could be caught anywhere. there were editorials in the 1880s that said have you seen the kodak film, which can get you in a bad position of the post office. but instead of saying get over it, many state laws about privacy. when supreme court dealt with the case about gps, the supreme court didn't say, hey, we have technology, get over privacy, they said -- and this is a supreme court that doesn't agre
that's like all of us here. to be reading on a treadmill or something, it doesn't mean that were sedentary. it doesn't mean that we are more sedentary than people playing video games. the reading is good for you. there are other medical evidence studies that suggest that reading is good for you. in the digital age, you have zero privacy, get over it. i'm here to say that that was said about every technology in the past 125 years. when the portable camera was developed. in 1888. all of a sudden...
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tweet us. he twitter.com/booktv with a month left to many publications are putting together their year-end list of notable books. book tv will feature several of these books. these nonfiction titles were included in mislaid magazine's staff picks for best books of 2012. ..
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tell us and generalize for us, historians have not typically have access to anything resembling this kind of material with the exception of nixon and whatever. how were we to regard the source of information? what is it? you have to check it? is a good way to his? >> i think it is good to go. what is wonderful about these tapes is the immediacy of them. also, we do have other presidential tapes to listen to. one of the things that i actually love about these tapes of the conversations between president kennedy and his brother. when you listen to the nixon tapes, they have a certain quality. then you listen to the two kennedy brothers talking about how mean this guy is. it sounds so quaint as opposed to some of what we heard on the nixon tapes. i'm sure that there were other words used to describe problematic figures. but it really brings you back to a different moment sometimes. >> is impossible to get some insight -- maybe fresh insight about how a president works? in other words, if you have access to his behavior in the oval office, giving and taking off and at the moment of decis
tell us and generalize for us, historians have not typically have access to anything resembling this kind of material with the exception of nixon and whatever. how were we to regard the source of information? what is it? you have to check it? is a good way to his? >> i think it is good to go. what is wonderful about these tapes is the immediacy of them. also, we do have other presidential tapes to listen to. one of the things that i actually love about these tapes of the conversations...
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so they made us go to the southeast corner. so the work on the third floor and the second floor would have been tom's old bedroom and the ground floor was the original tom sawyer which burned in 1806. this is the guy that never got credit. i wrote a book about the woman that was in the shower. that wasn't janet reed, that was a model named morley and they wanted everybody to think that was. in one year i heard first of all she was dead. that was the amazing thing. she'd been murdered by a serial killer. i've got to give her credit. one year she was the cover of playboy. she was in the famous scene in a horror movie in psycho. she was one of the first ten in chicago. it was a great story so i am writing this book and they are time consuming and of course i wasn't as personally involved so it isn't as a successful book but it was a great story and a great woman, so finding clues may be somebody else was killed in her place saying i was the woman in the alfred hitchcock show in psycho so i went where she used to go to high school
so they made us go to the southeast corner. so the work on the third floor and the second floor would have been tom's old bedroom and the ground floor was the original tom sawyer which burned in 1806. this is the guy that never got credit. i wrote a book about the woman that was in the shower. that wasn't janet reed, that was a model named morley and they wanted everybody to think that was. in one year i heard first of all she was dead. that was the amazing thing. she'd been murdered by a...
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for listening to us talk friday afternoon. i'm so that we chose to spend your afternoon with us. i have spent 10 years working for a library in and spent about half of that time physically working in a library. as a director of nyu press, i am thrilled to be here and to talk to you about publishing. i was asked to give you a quick overview of our philosophy. it sounds a little pretentious, but i would say that in terms of how i look at what we do, it is squarely driven by the message of oup. we often say that we don't exist to make money, but we do have to make money to do the things that we exist to do. it really doesn't want form all the work that we engage in. personally, one aspect of what we do and it is a kind of publishing that i think that we do especially with well, take the work of scholars who exist speaking to members of their own discipline-based stripes and try to help them translate their work to a larger audience. that can sometimes be a real challenge. but it goes to the heart of what i think we should be doing. which is not just publishing works to very small gr
for listening to us talk friday afternoon. i'm so that we chose to spend your afternoon with us. i have spent 10 years working for a library in and spent about half of that time physically working in a library. as a director of nyu press, i am thrilled to be here and to talk to you about publishing. i was asked to give you a quick overview of our philosophy. it sounds a little pretentious, but i would say that in terms of how i look at what we do, it is squarely driven by the message of oup. we...
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were in the white house she called us back and said i found something really interesting. would you be interested in covering it? i found myself on a plane to birmingham, alabama, where i visited churches, spent time in the archives, tried to find out as much as i could about the first lady's great-grandfather who happened to be by racial and the story ran a month later on the front page of the new york times about the office's parents, millennia, the first lady's great great great grandmother who was the slave girl valued at $475 in 1852 and the first lady's great, great grandfather who was a white man whose identity was a mystery. the day after the article ran, an editor sent me an e-mail and said that was fascinating. a little snippet of the first lady's family tree. would you think of doing a book on the old thing and that is how i got started. >> we are glad you got started on the book because it opens up a lot of information about families across america and the interconnectedness of many families. what i like about your book is it reads like a good suspense mystery
were in the white house she called us back and said i found something really interesting. would you be interested in covering it? i found myself on a plane to birmingham, alabama, where i visited churches, spent time in the archives, tried to find out as much as i could about the first lady's great-grandfather who happened to be by racial and the story ran a month later on the front page of the new york times about the office's parents, millennia, the first lady's great great great grandmother...
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i am ready to use my money to help them. charity is a good thing, a lot of egos are boosted by it, and many ethical points earned even when only tiny amounts are begin to the poor. but inequality is different. every mention of it raises, in fact, to the issue of appropriateness or legitimacy of my income. and i think that's absolutely true. and that's why even when you have a discussion about the general issue of income ine wagty -- inequality, once you start saying, actually, a lot of action is in the top 1% or the top 0.1%, people get really anxious. and actually one of my nicest moments so far with the publication of my book is i gave an early talk about this in chicago, and bill daley was on the panel. and he spoke after me. and he started his talk by saying, you know, actually, i guess it is okay to talk about income inequality. it's not class war to talk about it. and i said, yes, mr. daley, that's right. it is okay. so what are the drivers? what is causing this really, really big gap? now, here, um, you know, rather o
i am ready to use my money to help them. charity is a good thing, a lot of egos are boosted by it, and many ethical points earned even when only tiny amounts are begin to the poor. but inequality is different. every mention of it raises, in fact, to the issue of appropriateness or legitimacy of my income. and i think that's absolutely true. and that's why even when you have a discussion about the general issue of income ine wagty -- inequality, once you start saying, actually, a lot of action...
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it's hard for us to imagine this now, because we're so used to the feds stepping in and the treasury secretary trying to manage a situation like this. but roosevelt didn't know much about it. the treasury secretary didn't have quite as mu--very much authority. morgan seemed to be the only person who had the ability and the means to do this. so his partners sent him cables in richmond, virginia, about this developing situation, but they didn't want him to come back early because they thought that would spook the already scared market, that if everybody knew that morgan had left this convention to come back to wall street, the panic would get even worse. so he waited till the last possible--till the convention was over, took a night train, arrived at his library on sunday, and spent the day in his library surrounded by his partners and lieutenants, who briefed him on the situation. and then they decided--they sort of did research about the institutions that were in jeopardy and decided which ones should be--were not in very good shape and should be allowed to fail and which ones they o
it's hard for us to imagine this now, because we're so used to the feds stepping in and the treasury secretary trying to manage a situation like this. but roosevelt didn't know much about it. the treasury secretary didn't have quite as mu--very much authority. morgan seemed to be the only person who had the ability and the means to do this. so his partners sent him cables in richmond, virginia, about this developing situation, but they didn't want him to come back early because they thought...
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thanks so much for joining us. the question of of whether and how government, particularly the federal government, directs tax dollars to specific industries was a discussion in last night's presidential debate, and can it's become an important and ongoing theme in the current presidential campaign. the terms on which washington assisted the finance and auto industries have also been the focus of intense debate, but probably the most contentious example of all is the one on which diana furchtgott-roth, manhattan institute's senior fellow and our speaker this afternoon, focuses in her timely and important new book "regulating to disaster: how green jobs policies are damaging america's economy." in it she subjects the assumptionings and policies which led to such ill-fated federal investments as that of the now-bankrupt solyndra solar panel manufacturer as well as the a123 battery manufacturer to a withering analysis which we at the institute have come to expect from this oxford-trained economists who served as chief
thanks so much for joining us. the question of of whether and how government, particularly the federal government, directs tax dollars to specific industries was a discussion in last night's presidential debate, and can it's become an important and ongoing theme in the current presidential campaign. the terms on which washington assisted the finance and auto industries have also been the focus of intense debate, but probably the most contentious example of all is the one on which diana...
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>> guest: that cloud is all of us. the cloud is the marketing term for the way in which the internet as a whole can offer business services and what that means more specifically perhaps is a large data center, a data warehouse. perhaps not and ashburn at the next town over but in the next town over it has to tether in and connect directly, as directly as possible to the distribution depot you might say of ashburn virginia. ashburn is a place where bandwidth is the most abundant and the cheapest. it's a place that the most direct connections to the most other places and when you are dealing with a cloud perhaps with either e-mail or your backup for some program you use to manage your salesforce or whatever it is, you wanted to operate absolutely as possible, as much like sitting on your own computer. and that means being as closely tied to major network hubs as possible. >> host: in our discussion the past half hour we have talked about generators and wires and rooms with air conditioners etc.. how green is the internet
>> guest: that cloud is all of us. the cloud is the marketing term for the way in which the internet as a whole can offer business services and what that means more specifically perhaps is a large data center, a data warehouse. perhaps not and ashburn at the next town over but in the next town over it has to tether in and connect directly, as directly as possible to the distribution depot you might say of ashburn virginia. ashburn is a place where bandwidth is the most abundant and the...
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my drawings which i am proud of, we didn't use them all. you can probably see they have millions of lines in them and i am pretty strict when i work. i don't like -- if i make a mistake i do it over. i am a bit of a bug on that. see if i can find that one. one of the things we did that is really unusual is i do have the mall. these are what they look like. i made a nice map and as you can see you are in this map, where the steam baths are. i wanted to use pictures of tom but they wanted to go with the drawings so we did that. there is one that the death of an exploding steamboat -- naturally i can't find it. this is my favorite person in the book, one of mark twain -- usually my pictures are sort of symbolic, taught him how to write. since 1863 they knew each other. it linked the two stories. they're sitting in a steam bath, telling all these stories and my favorite part and i probably will bore you, mark twain gives a speech about the future of san francisco and he mentions sawyer and hired him to laugh at the right spot but the part that
my drawings which i am proud of, we didn't use them all. you can probably see they have millions of lines in them and i am pretty strict when i work. i don't like -- if i make a mistake i do it over. i am a bit of a bug on that. see if i can find that one. one of the things we did that is really unusual is i do have the mall. these are what they look like. i made a nice map and as you can see you are in this map, where the steam baths are. i wanted to use pictures of tom but they wanted to go...
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--ard to use. >>host: i have got so much going on and i know you do to especially over the holidays. the last thing i want to do is try download the video or read a tutorial. people tell me about a book i should get for this other camera, what? have time to read a book. but if you my today's special it could read a book to you. which i know a lot of your calling on. item number at the bottom of your screen. remember at midnight, colleen is coming up with a great today's special.she is going to start at 11.u see her, this is gone. it has been a great night for electronics and thank you for making that happen. camera. you know the photos you took over thanksgiving maybe there was a big party or family if you were not happy you should try this. and it is a big deal my friends.% not do olympus that often. only a couple times a year. when you think about it, they are a prestige brand.one other thing i should point out you do not see retail value and normally do because olympus is sold elsewhere. how luc
--ard to use. >>host: i have got so much going on and i know you do to especially over the holidays. the last thing i want to do is try download the video or read a tutorial. people tell me about a book i should get for this other camera, what? have time to read a book. but if you my today's special it could read a book to you. which i know a lot of your calling on. item number at the bottom of your screen. remember at midnight, colleen is coming up with a great today's special.she is...
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i hope you can join us. i have fun doing electronics especially because i get to work with my friends. electronics can be fun. rose marie was getting it for her 12 year-old niece. keep the calls coming. the reality is this you should not be intimidated. i think this is the perfect one for my mom. she wants to enter the high-tech world but she is afraid of computers to be honest. this is a computer but it is not as intimidating. it is interactive intuitive, a wonderful way to end toenter the! annual do things probably more often than your computer. --and you will. last show coming up at 9:00 p.m.. also on the 9:00 p.m. our high want to hear from you. promise me you will call. i want to hear--i want to. we will be monitoring live- chat our testimonial line. we would love to hear what you are doing what you want to be doing. do not forget you can shop internet, it is endless. you have access to the amazon appstore. one thing we have not talked about. while it does have a lot of internal memory and everything ha
i hope you can join us. i have fun doing electronics especially because i get to work with my friends. electronics can be fun. rose marie was getting it for her 12 year-old niece. keep the calls coming. the reality is this you should not be intimidated. i think this is the perfect one for my mom. she wants to enter the high-tech world but she is afraid of computers to be honest. this is a computer but it is not as intimidating. it is interactive intuitive, a wonderful way to end toenter the!...